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In a recent journey from Calais to Boulogne, Amiens, and Rheims, 

 I found most people there speak in the key of B flat major and minor. 

 The large bells at the belfry at Boulogne and at the cathedral at 

 Rheims also have the low B flat, and may have been cast in that tone 

 to be in unison with the voice of the people. Some of the conver- 

 sations along the route, and the calling out of the names of railway- 

 stations, were as follow : 



Two women on Boulogne pier. 



